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Bathrooms that throw sewage, stranded… this is Conviasa, the Venezuelan airline that will open the new airport in Mexico

The Venezuelan airline Conviasa, which will inaugurate international flights from the Felipe Ángeles Airport (AIFA), in Santa Lucía, Mexicoon March 21, is promoting the premiere with great fanfare on its networks.

“Have you already bought your ticket for our inaugural flight to Santa Lucía, Mexico? we offer you a super special opening rate”, points via Twitter, where it provides information on where and how to purchase tickets. The rate it marks is round trip, for 371 dollars (7,761 Mexican pesos).

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In your page: conviasa.aero, mark only one outbound and one return flight for the date; The departure is scheduled from Caracas to Santa Lucía, at 10:00 am on March 21, on a five-hour direct flight.

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Without promotion, the price is 240.82 dollars (5,020 Mexican pesos); and the return is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. on the same day, with arrival at 11:00 p.m. in Caracas. The cost, in this case, is 229.60 dollars (4,803 pesos). Even without opening fee, the price is much cheaper than in other airlines, which are around 20 thousand pesos.

Among the measures, the airline recalls that the use of face masks on the flight is mandatory.

What is the history of Conviasa?

It is a state company created by the deceased today former president Hugo Chavezwho promised to turn her into the pride of venezuela airline. The inaugural flight of Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air ServicesSA (Conviasa) the November 28, 2004.

Instead, the complaints about delays and failures They have become a constant. In February 2020, during the administration of donald trumpthe Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury of The United States sanctioned the airlinenoting that the regime of the current president, Nicholas Maduro“depends on Conviasa to transfer corrupt officials of the regime around the world to galvanize support for its anti-democratic efforts.”

The sanctions involve prohibition to Americans to carry out transactions linked to the blocked company.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the airline remained operational and the May 15, 2021 inaugurated the Caracas-Moscow flight.

“We are one of the few airlines in the world that remained operational during this pandemic and the economic blockade that was added,” said the vice president of ConviasaJose Gregorio Marquez Ramirez.

But last December, the airline made international news when stranded more than 200 passengers at the international airports of Ezeiza, in Argentina; Viru Viru, in Bolivia, and Maiquetía, in the Venezuelan state of Vargas.

The passenger complaints and photos stranded flooded the nets.

The same month one of its flights to Santiago de Chile became a trend, because one of the toilets overflowed sewagewhich invaded the cabin, according to the newspaper The National.

Even so, the airline assured that “2021 has been one of the best years for Conviasa.

It has reached the best expansion process since its creation in 2005″.

The current president of Conviasa, General Ramón Velásquez, assured in statements quoted by El Nacional that, “in the end, the sanctions of the United States have dented the development of Conviasa for different reasons, such as the training of its pilots, the provisions of spare parts or fuel supply at some airports.

But surprisingly, it has been able to handle it and it has not been an obstacle to its growth experienced this year (2021). The government seeks to put Conviasa at the top of the national transportation pyramid.”

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